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Cuba, the challenge for the Church? To take the handbrake off
Vatican Insider - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:53 am The last ad limina visit of the Cuban bishops dates back to May 8, 2008, when Benedict XVI was Pope. Now, nine years later, the 12 Cuban bishops (of three archdioceses, nine...
Catholic High School Criticized for Showing Video Comparing Abortion to the Holocaust
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:47 am A Catholic high school in Canada is facing harsh criticism after it showed students a video that compared the horrors of abortion to those of the Holocaust.
The Catholic Church...
ACCW to honor four women for parish volunteerism
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:42 am At the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women’s annual convention April 21-22 at St. Odilia in Shoreview, leaders will present Laywomen Volunteer Awards to four women.
Saint Gemma Galgani, Virgin
Regina Magazine - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:35 am April 11 Today is the feast day of Saint Gemma Galgani. Ora pro nobis. Gemma Galgani was born in a small Italian town near Lucca. At a very young age, Gemma developed a love for...
ASK FATHER: In confession, must we say which sins are mortal, which venial?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:33 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I know, to make a good confession, we need to confess mortal sins and the number of times we committed the sins. But I am often confused about whether a...
Cardinal Burke: Pope ‘has not granted me an audience’
LifeSiteNews - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:33 am The cardinal discussed his reduced role in the Knights of Malta, the need to correct the head of the Jesuit order, and scandalous visits to the Vatican.
A legendary living Latinist
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:02 am Over at Laudator Temporis Acti, which I check every day, there is a great post about legendary Latinist Fr Reginald Foster, OCD, who for decades worked in the Holy See’s office of...
Why did ancient Roman togas go out of style?
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:00 am The preference for togas had more to do with style than practicality.We know from statues and paintings from ancient Rome that togas were the thing to wear for a very long time....
Yearning for Perfection: Did Jesus ever Long for Home?
CatholicMom.com - Apr 11, 2017 at 9:00 am A couple of weeks ago our family and friends gathered to give our daughter Meredith a bridal shower. We had the entire first floor of the Asa Waters mansion in Millbury, MA for...
The Lord’s Fear
Dominicana - Apr 11, 2017 at 8:30 am Anxiety develops in three ways: the tidal waves of sudden tragedy, the rising flood of compounded stresses, and that heavy, salty air of ambient anxiety caused by constant tension...
Washington Post on airplane sleep: These days, most folks (like me) don't have a prayer
GetReligion - Apr 11, 2017 at 8:20 am I have been looking at this Washington Post feature for several weeks now, trying to decide whether to write a post mentioning it's tiny little religion angle.
The headline got my...
‘Civilian suffering brings me to uncontrollable tears’ says South Sudan bishop
Catholic Herald - Apr 11, 2017 at 8:08 am As civilians are increasingly targeted in South Sudan’s civil war, the president of the Sudanese bishops’ conference has written to community leaders saying the situation has...
3 Myths about marriage worth challenging
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2017 at 8:00 am For example: "A child is the end of everything cool in your life."There are so many folk stories out there. Old husband’s and wive’s tales that probably came to life after a few...
You Suggest: An 'immaculate' new internet radio station broadcasting pre-1955 Easter Triduum
Rorate Coeli - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:37 am From a reader:
Radio Immaculata is the all new internet radio station of the Franciscan Friars at Gosport, England, hoping to be instruments in the hands of the Immaculate with...
Hangry Mommy Meets Whole30
CatholicMom.com - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:30 am
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The week before Ash Wednesday, I still couldn’t think of something good to give up. Well, that’s not exactly true...
Pope calls Consistory to approve causes for canonization
News.va - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:25 am (Vatican Radio) On 20 April 2017, Thursday of Easter Week, Pope Francis will hold an ordinary public Consistory for the vote of the Cardinals on several causes for canonization....
German family continues to fight for right to homeschool
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:02 am Mainz, Germany, Apr 11, 2017 / 07:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In August 2013, a group of 20 police officers and social workers stormed the home of Petra and Dirk Wunderlich and took...
German family continues to fight for right to homeschool
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:02 am Mainz, Germany, Apr 11, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In August 2013, a group of 20 police officers and social workers stormed the home of Petra and Dirk Wunderlich and took...
Although pregnant, imprisoned and severely abused, she refused to deny her faith
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:00 am Blessed Emilia Fernandez Rodriguez is first Roma woman to be beatified.In 1936, Civil War erupted in Spain after the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, overthrew the...
The Apostolic Blueprint for a Parish, the Model of Christian Community in the Modern Age
New Liturgical Movement - Apr 11, 2017 at 7:00 am There is a lot of discussion today about the loss of community and how parishes, even those that seem well attended, don’t seem to be the center or the community any more. This is...
